Joke No. 269

The Defendant

The presiding judge had just completed rendering the court's
verdict and was about to pass sentence when he asked the
defendant if he had anything to say.

"No, judge, there is nothing I care to say," answered the prisoner.
"But if you'll let me clear away the tables and chairs in this here
courtroom, so's I can properly beat the heck outa that no-good
lawyer of mine, you can give me a year or two extra."